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Old 04-21-2012, 07:40 AM   #1
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LXer: Report: Html5, Linux's Lifeline?


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Lets face it, Linux lost the Desktop OS war years ago. It lost partially because it arrived too late to the game, finding that users where more than happy to stick to what they know (Humans, frugal yet stubborn) and partially because the design savvy to create something that was better and more usable than the competition's offerings didn't exist in the Linux diaspora.

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Old 04-22-2012, 02:26 AM   #2
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You can create HTML 5 desktop apps in Qt (and other toolkits, I'm sure) now, by embedding Webkit.

In fact, Anisha was doing the exact same thing last year.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...onsole-884674/

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